The school year may be well underway and teachers are already plastering their hallways with Halloween decorations, but the real fright for district superintendents in those states is whether legislative infighting will lead to midyear cuts. A handful of states' legislatures, including in Connecticut and Wisconsin, are still bickering over how to distribute millions of dollars in education money this year. Connecticut has gone three months without a budget and Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy vetoed a proposed $40 billion budget that included $1.9 billion for education. more